Understanding the evolutionary fate of finite populations: the dynamics of mutational effects.
The most consistent result in more than two decades of experimental evolution is that the fitness of populations adapting to a constant environment does not increase indefinitely, but reaches a plateau. Using experimental evolution with bacteriophage, we show here that the converse is also true. In...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2007-04-01
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Series: | PLoS Biology |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1845161?pdf=render |